Mar 08 2015
By PAMELA CODY Special to the PRESS South Padre Island was the location of the First Annual SPI Stables Polo Match on Sunday, March 1st, with SPI Stables facing off against Team McAllen on the bayside at the Shores on South Padre Island. The purpose of the event was to spread the enjoyment of the …
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Mar 08 2015
By ABBEY KUNKLE Special to the PRESS The South Padre Island Chamber of Commerce met Feb. 24 for their monthly meeting. The goal of the Chamber is simply to promote business, and welcomed Karla Fernandez Parker of K. Fernandez Marketing along with Google representatives Elijah and Kristie Whites who gave a presentation on the benefits …
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Mar 08 2015
By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com “I have been … and always shall be … your friend.” Those were the words Spock, played by Leonard Nimoy, said to Capt. Kirk as he lay dying of radiation poisoning aboard the crippled Starship Enterprise in the movie Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Nimoy, who arguably …
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Mar 08 2015
By ESTEVAN MEDRANO and DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press press@portisabelsouthpadre.com The Laguna Madre Water District welcomed their newest board member Martin Cantu Jr., who was appointed and sworn in Feb. 11 as the replacement for Nancy Martinez. Martin, a product of the University of Texas at Brownsville, was selected among five candidates vying for the …
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Mar 08 2015
By ESTEVAN MEDRANO Port Isabel-South Padre Press press@portisabelsouthpadre.com Mari Galvan, Port Isabel Event and Cultural Center Director since the center’s inception last year, officially resigned last week citing personal reasons. City Manager Ed Meza spoke about the major role she played in the facility’s maturation since its construction. “She contributed a lot to the Event Center,” …
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Mar 08 2015
By ESTEVAN MEDRANO Port Isabel-South Padre Press press@portisabelsouthpadre.com Roughly 20 gallons of displaced oil was spotted in the water near the South Point Marina around 7 a.m. Tuesday. The spill was quickly contained and cleared by local Oil Spill Prevention and Response Team members with the application of solvents. The Coast Guard insists the incident does …
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Mar 08 2015
By MARTHA McCLAIN Special to the PRESS With a wet and cold weekend forecast in store for the Laguna Madre area, the annual Music by the Bay outdoor festival has been canceled in Laguna Vista. Originally scheduled for Saturday night, the forecast calls for partly cloudy skies with a 60 percent chance of rain, winds up …
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Mar 08 2015
By MARTHA McCLAIN Special to the PRESS A workshop session to discuss the future of the Laguna Vista Marina will be scheduled for Town Council, Laguna Vista Recreational Association members and the public. The date and time for the session was not available at Press time. Two Council agenda items relating the the appraisal and lease …
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Mar 08 2015
By ESTEVAN MEDRANO Port Isabel-South Padre Press press@portisabelsouthpadre.com The native people known as the Lipan Apaches, the easternmost group of the indigenous Apache, were a resilient and adaptive tribe whose territory spanned through much of the what is now the American southwest. All Apaches belong to southern region of the widely dispersed Athabaskan language family. Though …
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Mar 08 2015
Special to the PRESS Once again, Cameron County Parks & Recreation will implement a CASH FOR TRASH RETURN REFUND PROGRAM which will run through the end of summer of 2015. The program will begin March 4, 2015 and will run thru September 7, 2015 and will operate on the Cameron County Beaches Access 5 & …
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